MOSS Intranet one of Top 10 ...One of the projects that we designed and delivered has been just announced as one of the best ten Intranets on the Nielsen Norman Group's "Intranet Design Annual 2008: Year's Ten Best Intranets"... A good read... </steve>

There is a lot of buzz since the announcement: Microsoft Announces Offer to Acquire Fast Search & Transfer Plenty of blog traffic on this one but I thought these two posts are worth your time: Microsoft Buys FAST; Last Year It Was BI, This Year It...

A good series of articles for those interested in using FBA. If you've deployed FBA and are seeing operational differences between FBA and Windows Integrated Security then jump to part 3. Forms Authentication in SharePoint Products and Technologies (Part...

A new white paper was just published, Evaluating Microsoft and SAP Portal Interoperability using WSRP , that describes the use of WSRP (Web Service for Remote Portlets) to facilitate the reusability of portlets across portal platforms. This technology...

The Extranet Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint is a new Solution Accelerator being developed by Microsoft. Currently in beta, this toolkit provides you with best practices and tools to securely collaborate with your customers, suppliers, and partners...

A new set of IFilters has been released. One thing to note is that the pack includes IFilters for OneNote and ZIP. </steve> 2007 Office System Converter: Microsoft Filter Pack Contents : The filter pack includes the following IFilters: · Word, Excel...

An interesting article worth reading. Gartner's top 10 strategic technologies for 2008 The one's that especially caught my eye were the following, mainly because I have been or are currently involved. Go check it out. Unified Communications (UC) Business...

A number of folks have asked about this capability since it was first announced. Here is some additional information. A good discussion of the overall capability; make sure to read the operational limits section. External Storing of Binary Large Objects...

If you are interested in this type of integration, then checking out the new white paper is a must. Don't walk, run...
Interoperability between SAP NetWeaver Portal and Microsoft SharePoint Technologies
This white paper covers indepth all currently...

For those that want to manage their Hotmail account (now known as Windows Live Hotmail) from Outlook 2003 or 2007, you can download the Microsoft Office Outlook Connector free of charge. You can also view your Windows Live Hotmail contacts in Outlook...

If so, then you need to check out this new blog . The only danger is that you'll go so deep you won't come back.......hum, maybe I'll send some folks I know there.... <updated when="Jan042008">Here is some other stuff that may also be very valuable...

Hey, let's make this part of your new year's resolution,......, one that you definitely complete. There is some good learning material on the learning portal , including some free stuff...
common, be the first on your block...
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A number of customers have been asking about using WCF so I"ve been doing some tutorials. If you're new to WCF and want to jump in, there are some great Web casts done by Michele that can be found here . Each is an hour in length and will definitely get...

I know, I know, the P word doesn't give us warm and fuzzies but you have to do it. Enough said.
If you are in the planning process, I encourage you to check out the large number of resources available. I've been going through this process pretty heavily...

For a non-Microsoft POV, check out the kind of things being considered. For an official position, I'd watch for future posts on the SharePoint Team blog .
Microsoft switching SharePoint to claims-based authentication
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Thinking about attending the Office Developer's Conference 2008 or the SharePoint Conference 2008 ? Well, you could go to both....If not then you should check out both sites and also this brief blog post . But the trouble is, if you aspire to be a great...

If the very in-depth and detailed error messages from SharePoint are leaving you wanting for more, make sure you enable debugging so you can get the full ASP.NET error. I continue to get questions on what changes to make so I’m including them here for...

I've gotten this question from several folks, so for those that have deployed SPS2003 and not yet upgraded, the lifecycle support is shown on this page . You might want to bookmark it to ensure that you have the most up to date information since it is...

Have you ever wanted to move a site collection from one content database to different content database? Or if you're not a merger you might be a splitter. Well, neatly tucked away inside the recent security hotfix is the new STSADM command mergecontentdbs...

Here is a project you might want to check out up on CodePlex. Good example of how an incorporate custom code into SPD.
SharePoint Designer Workflow Extensions (string manipulation functions)
Some blog info can be found here .
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